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Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   Magento 2 Development Quick Start Guide Build better stores by extending Magento

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343441
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Magento Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Working with Entities 3. Understanding Web APIs 4. Building and Distributing Extensions 5. Developing for Admin 6. Developing for Storefront 7. Customizing Catalog Behavior 8. Customizing Checkout Experiences 9. Customizing Customer Interactions 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Flagging new products

We have been asked to add a functionality that flags every new product shown on the storefront category view and product view pages with a [NEW] prefix in front of its name. New implies anything within the 5 days of the product's created_at value.

Luckily for us, we can easily control a product's name via an after plugin on a product's getName method. All it takes is to define an afterGetName plugin with a category view and product view pages constraint, further filtered by a created_at constraint.

To register the plugin, we start by creating the <MODULE_DIR>/etc/frontend/di.xml file with content, as follows:

<config>
<type name="Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface">
<plugin name="newProductFlag" type="Magelicious\Catalog\Plugin\NewProductFlag"/>
</type>
</config>

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